Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application. How does King support this claim?

King explains that a parade-permit law can be reasonable on its face because it helps manage public events. But when officials use it to deny permits for peaceful demonstrations against segregation, they apply the law unjustly. This example supports his claim that a law may be fair in its wording yet unjust in how it is enforced.

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